New Tab v0.4.2

Available Languages:

A personalized new tab extension for Chromium-based browsers. It replaces the default new tab page with a customizable dashboard for search, shortcuts, backgrounds, todos, onboarding, and AI assistance.

✨ Highlights

• Clock, date, and daily motto on a clean dashboard
• Search bar with switchable search engines
• App grid with built-in actions, custom shortcuts, and drag-and-drop ordering
• Static and live backgrounds, including uploaded images and videos
• Todo list with due dates, overdue state, filters, and progress tracking
• Simple mode plus settings for themes, colors, fonts, icon size, and icon shape
• English and Simplified Chinese interface support
• Built-in onboarding tour, update checks, and AI chat with offline fallback

🚀 Installation

Recommended install methods:

1. Microsoft Edge users: install from Edge Add-ons.
2. Other Chromium browser users: follow the manual installation instructions below. The latest package is also available as New-Tab.crx from Releases.

Manual or development install:

1. Download or clone this repository.
2. Open chrome://extensions or edge://extensions.
3. Enable Developer mode.
4. Click Load unpacked and select the project root folder.
5. Open a new tab to start using the extension.

🖼️ Screenshots

Screen	Preview
Dashboard
Background picker

📁 Project Structure

New-Tab.html         # main extension page
style.css            # global styles
src/
	ai/                # AI assistant, network detection, offline handling
	core/              # startup, language, version, utilities, update checks
	data/              # built-in backgrounds, custom backgrounds, motto data
	features/          # todo list, onboarding, simple mode, drag/drop helpers
	ui/                # settings, app manager, add-app flow, search engine UI
_locales/            # extension translations
background/tools/    # background thumbnail and video preview generators

👥 Contributing

Contributions are welcome. See our Contributing Guide for workflow and branch conventions.

Development notes:

• No build step is required. The extension is written in vanilla JavaScript and loaded directly by the browser.
• Main entry point: New-Tab.html
• Styles: style.css
• Source code: src/
• Localization files: _locales/
• Background asset helper scripts: background/tools/
• There is no automated test suite in the repository yet. Manual verification is done by reloading the unpacked extension and testing the new tab page in the browser.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.